Scientists at RIT lead a study utilizing data collected by LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) on NASA’s New Horizons mission. Researchers at Rochester Institute of…
Written over 2000 years ago, the Hipparchus Star Catalogue is the oldest known attempt to determine the precise position of fixed stars. Fragments of the…
It’s difficult to imagine that three random words have the power to both map the globe and protect your private data. The secret behind this…
Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. However, the U.S. declared monkeypox a national public health emergency on August 4, 2022, after the outbreak…
The world now has a new COVID-19 vaccine in its arsenal, and at a fraction of the cost per dose. Two years into the COVID-19…
Findings by the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation published in Nature Astronomy. For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of…
If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.” The Standard…
How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19? The answer is a process called DNA sequencing. Researchers sequence DNA to determine…
Dozens of space-based telescopes operate near Earth and provide incredible images of the universe. But imagine a telescope far away in the outer solar system,…
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of…
Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from…
Imaging system they built as freshmen reveals new information about Otto Ege Collection. Rochester Institute of Technology students discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript leaves…
Chaos paper by RIT Assistant Professor Nishant Malik applies method to Indus Valley Civilization. A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that…
Upgraded Radio Telescopes Enable Scientists to Study Pulsars From the Southern Hemisphere Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR) have collaborated…
Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10 black hole mergers to date, but they are still trying to explain the origins of those mergers….
Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black holes. These overlooked regions are…
A new simulation of supermassive black holes–the behemoths at the centers of galaxies–uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding…
A new study led by Marcel Pawlowski at Case Western Reserve University pokes holes in the current understanding of galaxy formation and questions the accepted…